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Wrong man exectuted in Texas - shitstorm - 05-15-2012 He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found. Even "all the relatives of both Carloses mistook them," and DeLuna was sentenced to death and executed based only on eyewitness accounts despite a range of signs he was not a guilty man, said law professor James Liebman. Liebman and five of his students at Columbia School of Law spent almost five years poring over details of a case that he says is "emblematic" of legal system failure. http://news.yahoo.com/wrong-man-executed-texas-probe-says-051125159.html DeLuna, 27, was put to death after "a very incomplete investigation. No question that the investigation is a failure," Liebman said. The report's authors found "numerous missteps, missed clues and missed opportunities that let authorities prosecute Carlos DeLuna for the crime of murder, despite evidence not only that he did not commit the crime but that another individual, Carlos Hernandez, did," the 780-page investigation found. RE: Wrong man exectuted in Texas - Cynical Ninja - 05-15-2012 They seem to care more about the death penalty than justice in Texas. Disgraceful shambles and a waste of an innocent life. RE: Wrong man exectuted in Texas - Lady Cop - 05-15-2012 a nightmarish injustice that our country has been guilty of in the past, and i hope it can forever be ceased...no DP unless proof is irrefutable. wrongful executions in our history can never be remedied. RE: Wrong man exectuted in Texas - Lady Cop - 05-15-2012 DeLuna crime scene victim